NotoriousREV

I used to have a CBM VIC20 with shed loads of game, but there's one I remember that me and my sister played for hours. It actually came on a cartridge and was a text-based adventure type game where you had to type "walk north" and it'd reply "you are in a field, there is a haystack" and so on.

Anyone know it's name and where I can download a PC version or emulator ROM?

DominicA

Lords of Midnight??

NotoriousREV

hmm, that name doesn't ring a bell. The only part i remember well is bit where you're near a lava flow and you have to find a flame suit (sic) to go into it and find something.

Scooby Dooby Blue

Jeez you know how to annoy people doncha!

I had that game but i'm buggered if I can remember what it was called(wasn't Lords of Midnight).

Only had 3 cartridges...that game, Gorf and a 16K expander

Merry Xmas,

Paul

rob barron

God I remember those things.
Now I am showing my age

Try having a look at www.classicgaming.com/museum/vic20
There is a emulator you can download and links to sites where you can download software from.


Also have a look at www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/vic20/Cartzilla.html
this site Reviews all the VIC-20 Cartridge Software.

You might find it in there!

Happy Hunting.

Cheers,

Rob
P1 Web Owners Club
www.P1woc.co.uk


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RichiW

LOL... thats just reminded me of the paperback books i used to buy, same thing, they tell you a tale, then give you options and depending what you wanted to do you went to page X or Y


Cheers for the thought

Rich.

ScoobyTal

He He

Books by Paul Jackson IIRC

Top fun

IWatkins

N-Rev,

I remember that too !!!!

Still got it but I think it is the loft at my folks house, along with a still working VIC20. Can't remember the name of it though either. Can remember Pac-Man, Gorf but not this one.

If you don't find it soon I'll get my Dad to go up into the loft to find it.

Cheers

Ian

NotoriousREV

Cheers for the replies guys, nice to see some other folks that still remember the good old VIC. Ah, 3.5k of RAM, them were the days.

Anyone else play Cosmiads and Scram 20 until their eyes hurt?

Scooby Dooby Blue

Never had them

Totally deathed Gorf, Blitz and Arcadia though.
Even wrote a couple of games myself (aged 8), thanks to 'Introduction to BASIC PT1 & PT2'.

Merry Xmas,

Paul

STi-Frenchie

Wasn't "The Hobbit" was it?

ptholt

THe hobbit was a tape based adventure so it wasn't on cartridge.
The majority of the cartridge games (from memory) where commodore licensed titles.....

wasn't 'zork' or one of its many incarnations was it?

GaryK

Rev,

I think you're referring to the scott adams adventures, there were five in all, voodoo castle, adverntureland, pirates cove and the other two I cant remember, all text based and simply awesome, tough too and in those days you couldnt go on the web to get help!

cheers

Gary

IWatkins

Voodoo Castle and Pirates Cove rings a bell and I've called my Dad and he agrees. Says he would go up the loft and dig them out, but can't be arsed at the moment. Fair enough

NotoriousREV

Bingo!!!

/me heads off to the emulator site...

NotoriousREV

OK, I found Amok!, Frogger, Snake Byte and Sargon II Chess, still need to locate Cosmiads, Scram 20, Blag and Adventureland. Woohoo, what better way to get over a hangover than by paying old games

Scooby Dooby Blue

Was Blag the caveman with the yo-yo? If so, wasn't that a C64 game?

Merry Xmas,

Paul

GaryK

jelly monsters, now that was a cool VIC game!

Gary

beemerboy

anyone have Blitz(tape) and spiders from/of mars(cart)???

BB

GaryK

BB,

if youve got an emulator go here http://ftp.martnet.com/martnet/commie/vic20/roms/8k/ also 3k, 16k and unexpanded games also

or you running it on the real thing?

cheers

Gary

NotoriousREV

LOL, I'd forgotten that one! Another one to ad to the collection.

Blag was a game where they chucked money bags and you had to catch them in the back of a van, IIRC.

I'm going to visit my dad sometime this week and find out if he still has the VIC in the loft

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

I think I still have my old VIC20 at home I didn't think they were that popular I was about 5 when I got mine Should still have the games too Guess they maybe worth money now in working condition.

Paul

GaryK

Paul,

Depends if you have the box and any games, vary from about £20-£40, I was about 13 when I had mine, if only we all knew back then how much they were worth!

If any of you have got a ZX80 or a jupiter ace they are rarer than rocking horse $hit, Ive seen a zx80 sell for £600!!!!

retro rocks!!!!

Gary
(ZX81, 48k Spectrum, C64 owner)

beemerboy

£30-£40 !!!

If i remember correctly, the C2N cassette deck cost about that new!!!

BB

PS:
I also remember thinking i was "jack-the-biscuit" when i got my 16K expansion cartridge!!!!

those were the days...



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